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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I always hope for a horsey⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In theory some configurations have stronger or weaker first mover advantage. This is known as white privilege.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True Wireless Power is FINALLY here (building a TRULY wire-free desk setup)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That wasn’t the real Tesla, though. It was actually the Goblin King.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The movie cars is crazy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Many kid movies raise some troubling implications about personhood and moral agency with anthropomorphized non-human characters (Toy Story and life/death/abandonment, what do obligate carnivores in Zootopia eat, etc.).

  But Bee Movie inexplicably just dives right into it instead of leaving it unexplored on the edges. If the bees are fully intelligent beings with rich inner experiences, what moral obligation do we owe them? It’s a mess of a concept.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You mean it gets worse?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All this is just saying that you personally put more weight on the things that are better about later adulthood than early adulthood or adolescence. And that can be your choice, but it doesn’t have to be everyone’s choice.

  You acknowledge that the health and friendships piece gets harder with age but push back against the idea that it inevitably gets worse. But averaged among all people, things will tend to get worse, and some people who actually experience that deterioration will conclude (as is their right) that things were better when health and friendships were easier.

  But we also make new relationships as we get older. Is life better when you have a grandparent? Or when you have a grandchild?

  These aren’t symmetrical. When you are a young person who loves your grandparents, you haven’t actually mourned a loss of a grandchild you personally knew. On the flip side, when you have a grandchild you might also view that relationship through the lens of a lost relationship with a deceased grandparent. In other words, only one of those experiences is 100% good, rather than a bittersweet mix of good and sad.

  Not to mention, plenty of people will never have grandchildren. To them, the mourned loss of a grandparent is the end of that road. There’s no replacement on its way.

  Put it this way: if given the opportunity to wake up 10 years in the past, in your body of 10 years ago, how positive or negative would you view that? Plenty of people would vote on different sides of that, and that’s OK to have different views based on one’s own experiences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You mean it gets worse?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I interpret it to be more about the weight given to different pros and cons about different stages in life.

  Some people really, really prize autonomy, and don’t get to experience that until pretty late in life. For these people, the stifling limits of adolescence, without their own money or independence from parents, can be miserable.

  Some people really, really prize being free of responsibilities. To this group, sometimes adulthood comes with too many challenges and responsibilities that they find independence to be stifling.

  Some care about physical health, which may correlate with younger ages.

  Some love the ease of friendships in adolescence and early adulthood, and long for that dynamic when they realize that making new friends or maintaining existing friendships gets harder after 30, and even more so after 40.

  Some feel very strongly about the loved ones they’ve lost since their childhood, and wish they could’ve appreciated those shared experiences more in the moment.

  And we all have different experiences. I have no idea if my best years are ahead of me or behind me, but I could see an argument in either direction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You mean it gets worse?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This all or nothing thinking often just turns into an excuse for doing nothing.

  I can make a better world by making things better in my immediate vicinity, without dying for it. I can help one person at a time, and it might not scale to some kind of globally noticeable improvement, but it can still a difference to each of those people, and was worth whatever effort or sacrifice involved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gives a mom a reason to live 5/5⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The arm is lit up from the bottom, totally doesn’t fit the rest of the lighting in the picture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So close!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is such a snore-gasm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MEGA PENGUIN⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude don’t you have a department of health and human services to run?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you think freewill truly exists?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just gonna eat this burrito though.

  But pray tell doth the burrito quality as a sandwich

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you think freewill truly exists?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But most people who are invested in small talk will be giving the signals they think the other person wants, making it less useful than not talking at all.

  I don’t think this is true. When I engage in small talk, I don’t see it as me bending flexibly to the conversation partner’s wants. I’m testing to see if there are common overlaps that we can talk about, and talking for the sake of being entertained. If the other person turns out not to be a good conversation partner for me in that moment, I don’t think anything of just moving on. I’m not trying to please them, I’m trying to enjoy myself.

  I can’t imagine I’m in the minority here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Human life absolutely factors into predicted lawsuit losses. Wrongful death lawsuits are expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SUNS OUT GUNS OUT⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The result is insane in my opinion, it means any sensible math system with basic arithmetic has a proposition that you cannot prove.

  Stated more precisely, it has true propositions that you cannot prove to be true. Obviously it has false propositions that can’t be proven, too, but that’s not interesting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SUNS OUT GUNS OUT⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  with a rigorous, needlessly convoluted proof.

  Again, Goedel’s theorem was in direct response to Russell and Whitehead spending literally decades trying to axiomize mathematics. Russell’s proof that 1+1=2 was 300 pages long. It was non-trivial to disprove the idea that with enough formality and rigor all of mathematics could be defined and proven. Instead of the back and forth that had already taken place (Russell proposes an axiomatic system, critics show an error or incompleteness in it, Russell comes back and adds some more painstaking formality, critics come back and do it again), Goedel came along and smashed the whole thing by definitively proving that there’s nothing Russell can do to revive the major project he had been working on (which had previously hit a major setback when Russell himself proved Russell’s paradox).

  how about:
  x = 2
  2x = 3,000
  omg! they’re inconsistent!

  You didn’t define x, the equals sign, the digit 2, 3, or 0, or the convention that a real constant in front of a variable implies multiplication, or define a number base we’re working in. So that statement proves nothing in itself.

  And no matter how many examples of incomplete or contradictory systems you come up with, you haven’t proven that all systems are either incomplete or contradictory. No matter how many times you bring out a new white swan, you haven’t actually proven that all swans are white.

  And formal logic and set theory may have seemed like masturbatory discipline with limited practical use, but it also laid the foundation for Alan Turing and what would become computer science, which indisputably turned into useful academic disciplines that changed the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SUNS OUT GUNS OUT⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was a response to philosophers who were trying to come up with a robust axiomatic system for explaining math. Russell and Whitehead’s Principia Mathematica attempted to formalize everything in math, and Goedel proved it was impossible.

  So yes, it’s a bit of a circlejerk, but it was a necessary one to break up another circlejerk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a wonderful world we live in!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Up in horsey heaven, here’s the thing
  You trade your legs for angels wings
  And once we’ve all said good-bye
  You take a running leap and you learn to fly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's bad man⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  every hole is a goal

  ew

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's bad man⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  25-35 is a great time. I moved cities and changed careers in my late 20’s, and pivoted again in my early 30’s, and it was a good reset to build on lessons learned and undoing past mistakes, while having the youth and energy to really enjoy myself and actually choose a path I was going to have fun with.

  I’m enjoying my 40’s a lot, but I look back fondly on that 25-35 period as being both fun in itself and setting me up for a good 30’s and 40’s (and possibly further).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The joy of a family that values education celebrating the graduation of their son⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IT’S A BEAR DANCE

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is coal and fossil fuels still used?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lazard is a pretty respected analyst for energy costs. Here’s their report from June 2024.

  In the U.S., peaker gas plants that are only fired up between 5-20% of the time, the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) is between $110 to $230 per MWh. The levelized cost of storage for utility scale 4-hour storage ranges from $124-$226 per MWh, after subsidies. Before subsidies, that 4-hour storage costs $170-$296.

  Residential storage, on the other hand, doesn’t come close. That’s $882 to $1101 before subsidies, or $653 to $855 after subsidies.

  So in other words, utility scale storage has dropped down to around the same price as gas peaker plants, in the U.S., after subsidies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨butt mogged these zoomers today⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just that I don’t have any expectation of the girls in the picture being shocked

  That’s the joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is coal and fossil fuels still used?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, people are working on it.

  The EIA estimates that there’s about 30 GW of battery capacity in the U.S., mostly in storage systems that are designed to store about 1-4 hours worth.

  That’s in comparison to 1,200 GW of generation capacity, or 400 times as much as there is storage.

  It’s coming along, but the orders of magnitude difference between real-time supply and demand and our capacity for shifting some of the power just a few hours isn’t quite ready for load balancing across a whole 24 hour day, much less for days-long weather patterns or even seasonality across the year. We’re probably gonna need to see another few years of exponential growth before it starts actually making a big impact to generation activity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨butt mogged these zoomers today⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard of nigging but I’ve never heard of this.

  Um I hope you mean negging

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨butt mogged these zoomers today⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Mogging” as a term originated in the early 2000’s and went mainstream-ish in the late 2000’s when the “pickup artist” community started getting attention in places like the New York Times. The people who originated it are probably like 45-50 years old now.

  Quick etymology: comes from these pseudoscientific douchebags trying to name the phenomenon where a man tries to subtly belittle another man in front of women, establishing that he’s the AMOG (alpha male of group), eventually became a verb amogging or mogging, and then various specific types of this behavior earned prefixes: heightmogging, etc.

  The fact that it has this kind of staying power, 20 years later, is the surprising part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy Shitpost⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Some daals are spicy, and could arguably be considered British?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Things are getting really crazy.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a subscriber to their monthly print copy, and a lot of the stories in the print version don’t make it to the website as quickly. I’ve got the February copy on my desk with the following headlines:

  • Trump Administration Offers Free At-Home Loyalty Tests: Tool That Diagnoses Disobedience to be Mailed to U.S. Households
  • U.S. Military Bans Men With Girl Names From Combat - Wars Will No Longer Be Fought By Male Shannons, Terrys, or Carmens
  • Baby Saves Affair: Illicit Relationship Rekindled by Out-of-Wedlock Birth

  As far as I can tell, these articles never made it online. And they are funny. Good coffee table material.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Although i love it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In my opinion, cauliflower sucks unless it’s been roasted/fried/seared with dry high heat to the point of being brown and crispy.

  If it is overcooked, the rupture of the cell walls makes that cabbage stank run out into the dish.

  If it’s still raw or cooked at too low a temperature (which includes any temperature in which liquid water will exist on the surface), it’s missing the delicious browning that happens at high heat.

  That means it doesn’t work as cauliflower “wings.” The breading/batter protects the cauliflower too much, and it ends up steaming itself inside. Just batter up some firm tofu instead, those are great wings.

  It can work as cauliflower “steak” I guess, but that doesn’t really taste like it should fit the culinary role of a protein/main. I’m all about roasting cauliflower, and flat slices make it easy to grill or sear evenly, but that just doesn’t fit that ecological niche that a steak does.

  So I generally don’t like cauliflower served with broccoli. They cook too differently to be able to actually cook them together in the same batch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turning the Tables: How to Make Spammers Reveal Their Own IP Address⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Spit out a random e-mail address and record which e-mail address was given to each IP.

  The author mentions it’s a violation of GDPR to record visitors’ IP addresses. I’m not sure that’s correct, but even so, it could be possible to make a custom encoding of literally every ipv4 address through some kind of lookup table with 256 entries, and just string together 4 of those random words to represent the entire 32-bit address space, such that “correct horse battery staple” corresponds to 192.168.1.100 or whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turning the Tables: How to Make Spammers Reveal Their Own IP Address⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Base64 encoding of a text representation of an IP address and date seems inefficient.

  There are 4 octets in a ipv4 address, where each octet is one of 2^8 possible integers. The entire 32-bit ipv4 address space should therefore be possible to encode in 6 characters in base64.

  Similarly, a timestamp with a precision/resolution in seconds can generally be represented by a 32-bit integer, at least up through 2038. So that can be represented by another 6 characters.

  Or, if you know you’re always going to be encoding these two numbers together, you can put together a 64-bit number and encode that in base64, in just 11 characters. Maybe even use some kind of custom timestamp format that uses fewer bits and counts from a more recent epoch, as an unsigned integer (since you’re not going to have site visitors from the past), and get that down to even fewer characters.

  That seems to run less risk of the email address getting cut off at some arbitrary length as it gets passed around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turning the Tables: How to Make Spammers Reveal Their Own IP Address⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The use of a “+” convention is just a convention popularized by Gmail and the other major providers. If you have your own domain, you should be able to do this with any arbitrary text schema, and encode some information in the address itself, especially if you don’t care about sending email from those aliases: set up your email service to have a catchall inbox that can further be filtered/forwarded based on other rules.

  It can be cumbersome but I could see it working at getting the information you’re looking for.